"Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitationsâ€¦. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structuresâ€¦. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures."

-- Christian Smith

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